MartinGPerry
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Don't even think about buying an epirb until you have read http://www.equipped.org/406_beacon_test_summary.htm
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Thoughts on emergency equipment
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penfold
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This rant is not specifically aimed at mr. perry; will everyone out there please do their bit to ease my suffering with obsessive/compulsive disorder, and <font color=red>learn how to do active links!!</font color=red>/forums/images/icons/smile.gif <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.ybw.com/faq/2.22.html>here is a good start.</A>
Ah, that's better.
The EPIRB test is <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.equipped.org/406_beacon_test_summary.htm>here.</A>
<hr width=100% size=1>What we are dealin' with here is a complete lack of respect for the law....<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by penfold on 28/04/2004 02:28 (server time).</FONT></P>
Ah, that's better.
The EPIRB test is <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.equipped.org/406_beacon_test_summary.htm>here.</A>
<hr width=100% size=1>What we are dealin' with here is a complete lack of respect for the law....<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by penfold on 28/04/2004 02:28 (server time).</FONT></P>
jimi
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Re: the axe
A decent sailing knife ought to do the job! Once had to cut a warp when the wind changed and we had to get off the berth in a hurry. The cleat had been tied off with the load bearing rope on tope of the OXO and with the boat bouncing around proved impossible to undo .. out came knife and a millisec later we were free!
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A decent sailing knife ought to do the job! Once had to cut a warp when the wind changed and we had to get off the berth in a hurry. The cleat had been tied off with the load bearing rope on tope of the OXO and with the boat bouncing around proved impossible to undo .. out came knife and a millisec later we were free!
<hr width=100% size=1>I Have The Body Of A God... Buddha
cliff
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Re: the axe
Naw, naw, boys and girls, an axe is important and not a lightweight campers axe either. Get a real one that can hack its way through the inner moulding on your boat to let you get to the hull.
Picture the scene.... There you are out for your weekly potter either you open the throttles (soon to be a hting of the past if GB gets his way) or a good breeze comes up and you tighten the sails and are off......... BANG into that floating tree trunk or railway sleeper or 40' container that you didnot see and oops hole in the hull below the water line. Bilges filling up try to put patch over the hole but can't get to it coz of the internal moulded skin - out comes the old axe and in a few seconds you can reach the hole / split / crack and stuff a patch over it to reduce the sinking feeling.
Also good for opening tins of baked beans when her below has lost the tin opener. - Just so long as she doesn't lose the cork screw......
Axe also handy for bar-b-ques on the beach - chopping driftwood
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Naw, naw, boys and girls, an axe is important and not a lightweight campers axe either. Get a real one that can hack its way through the inner moulding on your boat to let you get to the hull.
Picture the scene.... There you are out for your weekly potter either you open the throttles (soon to be a hting of the past if GB gets his way) or a good breeze comes up and you tighten the sails and are off......... BANG into that floating tree trunk or railway sleeper or 40' container that you didnot see and oops hole in the hull below the water line. Bilges filling up try to put patch over the hole but can't get to it coz of the internal moulded skin - out comes the old axe and in a few seconds you can reach the hole / split / crack and stuff a patch over it to reduce the sinking feeling.
Also good for opening tins of baked beans when her below has lost the tin opener. - Just so long as she doesn't lose the cork screw......
Axe also handy for bar-b-ques on the beach - chopping driftwood
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Peppermint
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Re: How refined
must be all that anatomy you did.
They're ears me dears.
It's your brain is your salvation in an emergency.
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must be all that anatomy you did.
They're ears me dears.
It's your brain is your salvation in an emergency.
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janeK
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"Especially for long-distance cruising" - might an axe be useful for chopping up those large fish you intend to catch and make them into steaks??? Tuna springs to mind?
Just a thought ......as well as the already mentioned reasons
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Just a thought ......as well as the already mentioned reasons
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pugwash
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Re: Bad Luck ...
Sounds useful. The instructor on our sea survival course said the same thing but where do you get these bits of kit?
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Sounds useful. The instructor on our sea survival course said the same thing but where do you get these bits of kit?
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celandine
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Never mind axe, get a chainsaw (true story)
An acquaintance with a Thames sailing barge managed to get jammed broadside on to a couple of swim-headed lighters that were rafted-up to a buoy in a strong tide-way on the London River. This, as you know, is an extremely unhealthy situation to be in, since even vessels as big as barges have been sucked under and capsized by the enormous undertow that the swim-head creates. Unphazed, he nipped below to return soconds later with a chain saw, with which he promptly removed the offending bit of his bulwarks before continuing on his merry way.
Mick
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An acquaintance with a Thames sailing barge managed to get jammed broadside on to a couple of swim-headed lighters that were rafted-up to a buoy in a strong tide-way on the London River. This, as you know, is an extremely unhealthy situation to be in, since even vessels as big as barges have been sucked under and capsized by the enormous undertow that the swim-head creates. Unphazed, he nipped below to return soconds later with a chain saw, with which he promptly removed the offending bit of his bulwarks before continuing on his merry way.
Mick
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whisper
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There's a slight problem for me here in that I don't know what the "words" "url" and "link" mean in these circumstances. Does one just type the letters u r l inside the brackets or does url mean something? What exactly is meant by "link" in this situation as well?
Thanks in anticipation.
John
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Thanks in anticipation.
John
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BrendanS
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url is a website address. LIke www.ybw.com
now instead of making people open another window and type it in, you can turn it into a link so people can just click on it
Like this click here
You do need to type url inside the brackets
<hr width=100% size=1>Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabris, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
now instead of making people open another window and type it in, you can turn it into a link so people can just click on it
Like this click here
You do need to type url inside the brackets
<hr width=100% size=1>Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabris, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
Peppermint
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Re: Save the cash
buy a load of hacksaws.
It's rare to loose the rig but you can find lots of things to do with a saw.
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buy a load of hacksaws.
It's rare to loose the rig but you can find lots of things to do with a saw.
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MainlySteam
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Axes are specified in the rules of administrations for commercial vessels, including their small vessels, normally as part of the fire kit in order to provide access to the seat of the fire (many fires are electrical and occur behind panels, moldings, etc).
I also agree with Cliff that one (or an alternative tool) should be carried in our typical smaller unsubdivided vessels in order to give access to hull damage if it occurs behind linings, moldings, etc.
We do not carry an axe but we do carry a heavy pry bar which is pointed on one end and is the usual pry shape the other - it will give access to all parts of our vessel (not that I have tried, of course) - providing I remember where it is /forums/images/icons/blush.gif. While my toolkit is similar to TCM's (but adjusted to suit a sailboat and smaller vessel) so am likely to be painted with a being extravagent brush, an axe (or suitable substitute) is high on my list of important equipment on a decked boat.
While it will upset some, my opinion is that while no piece of equipment is enough by itself, the most important piece of safety equipment one can carry is a 406Mhz EPIRB - even when within VHF coverage.
John
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I also agree with Cliff that one (or an alternative tool) should be carried in our typical smaller unsubdivided vessels in order to give access to hull damage if it occurs behind linings, moldings, etc.
We do not carry an axe but we do carry a heavy pry bar which is pointed on one end and is the usual pry shape the other - it will give access to all parts of our vessel (not that I have tried, of course) - providing I remember where it is /forums/images/icons/blush.gif. While my toolkit is similar to TCM's (but adjusted to suit a sailboat and smaller vessel) so am likely to be painted with a being extravagent brush, an axe (or suitable substitute) is high on my list of important equipment on a decked boat.
While it will upset some, my opinion is that while no piece of equipment is enough by itself, the most important piece of safety equipment one can carry is a 406Mhz EPIRB - even when within VHF coverage.
John
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mtb
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Re: nope
topics MMMMM
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topics MMMMM
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